Customer Reviews

Dynamic HTML Weekend Crash Course (With CD-ROM)

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I agree with the other reviewers on this one. It is a good review and practice of JavaScript and CSS up to chapter 22, which is incredibly insufficient. The problem is it seems as though the book was rushed to print and some code was left off the CD-ROM.

It is a very cool review of JavaScript and CSS; if you understand a certain amount of these two subjects, but they are not clicking as well as you expect them to, this book is great--also showing you new ways to use the two subjects. I took one star off because there is one chapter on scrolling text I find very unclear unfortunatly. Otherwise you get to learn some cool tricks...

No one likes a book that takes too much time to get to the point, and this book delves right down to business the moment you open it. It also has a flowing friendly style and is very pleasant to read, not to mention the fact that it is geared towards the latest 6.0 browsers and insists on flaunting this freshness.
But when a book this fresh is published with errors that are clear and which repeat across pages, you start to doubt how well the publisher checked the code inside the book. Neither will you find any errata on the book's website. Both points are carnal sins in my eyes; when I want to learn something, I do not want to feel like I am the book's editor or fact checker. Apparently, neither were involved in the writing of this book.

While there is a little bit of sloppiness in this book (a litt emore copyediting would have been nice), there's no question that it's one of the best, most readable and understandable books on my bookshelf on DHTML. In particular, the coverage of Cascading Style Sheets is outstanding (with lots of neato tricks) and the JavaScript material - if you already have a basic clue about the language - is very good too.

The second edition of this book should be terrific!